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“189 Fleet Street, An important address for chess collectors”

“189 Fleet Street, An important address for chess collectors”

by Pauline McCallum | Jul 11, 2021

This CCI publication by Jon Crumiller throws a huge spanner in the works for descriptions of Calvert chessmen. For example, a prominent website shows an image and description of ‘a wooden Calvert style (!?) St. George set’, but having viewed this excellent...

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